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Released: 31-Jul-2004 8:30 AM EDT
NCSA To Start Grad Program in Performing Arts Management
University of North Carolina School of the Arts

The School of Design and Production at the North Carolina School of the Arts will add a graduate program in performing arts management to its repertory this coming fall. This new program is designed to train the future executive leadership of America's performing arts organizations.

Released: 26-Jul-2004 5:00 PM EDT
PBS Documentary on Latino Art, Culture Premieres in Tucson Aug. 6
University of Arizona

A series of half-hour documentaries on Latino art and culture in the United States will premiere in Tucson with three episodes on Friday, Aug. 6.

Released: 22-Jul-2004 8:40 AM EDT
Researcher Changing the Way We Read Shakespeare
University of Toronto

A new way to read Shakespeare? Although William Shakespeare has been one of the most studied authors in history, a U of T English professor is working to change the way we understand his plays.

Released: 19-Jul-2004 2:20 PM EDT
Northeastern to Host 2004 Campaign for Literacy at DNC
Northeastern University

News conference to announce results of the Books for Boston book drive and to present $25,000 in college scholarships from Sallie Mae to Boston students and participants in Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG), a school-to-career program implemented in 1,000 schools across the country.

Released: 16-Jul-2004 1:10 PM EDT
Never-Before-Shown Warhols to be Unveiled in Brattleboro, Vermont
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center

This September 11, "Andy Warhol: Intimate Unseen" will premiere at an opening reception at the Brattleboro Museum of Art, followed by a Studio 54 Disco party at the River Garden on Main Street. The exhibit will then officially open on September 18 and continue through through February 6.

Released: 16-Jul-2004 6:00 AM EDT
Press Freedom Lacking in Religion Coverage in Central Asia
Michigan State University

Domestic Central Asian online media are unable to report about controversial religion issues because of sparse resources and governmental, cultural and self-imposed restraints.

Released: 14-Jul-2004 3:20 PM EDT
Black Radio Played Strong Role In Shaping Civil Rights
University of Florida

Like Radio Free Europe was to those behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, black radio stations and disc jockeys often were as important as ministers and politicians in mobilizing support for the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Released: 14-Jul-2004 2:20 PM EDT
Largest Collection of Clothes Patterns Now Available On CD
University of Rhode Island

After more than a decade of recording and categorizing 20,000 patterns and scanning the front and back of each package into an electronic data base, the largest collection of clothes patterns in the world is now available in a two-volume CD set containing patterns dating from 1868 to 1956.

Released: 14-Jul-2004 6:30 AM EDT
Kerry's Poet Langston Hughes: This Year's Comeback Kid
University of Kansas

Sen. John Kerry frequently quotes poems by Langston Hughes, notably his highly critical 'Let America Be America,' sparking renewed interest in the visionary African-American poet.

Released: 12-Jul-2004 6:30 AM EDT
2004 Campaign for Literacy, Books for Boston, at Democratic National Convention
Northeastern University

News conference to announce results of the Books for Boston book drive and to present $25,000 in college scholarships from Sallie Mae to Boston students and participants in Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG), a school-to-career program implemented in 1,000 schools across the country.

Released: 9-Jul-2004 6:10 AM EDT
Modern Olympics, Like Ancient Ones, Rooted In Greece
University of Florida

When the summer Olympic Games begin in Athens next month, the event will mark a return not only to the games' ancient roots but also to its modern ones.

Released: 28-Jun-2004 6:10 AM EDT
31st Annual Faulkner Conference to Focus on Materiality of Life
University of Mississippi

The seemingly ordinary elements of life that provide the backdrop for William Faulkner's fiction are the focus of this year's Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, one of the longest-running U.S. literary events focusing on the works of one author.

Released: 23-Jun-2004 1:20 PM EDT
Pictures, Drawings and Photographs Impact Famous Texts
University of Toronto

Doodling can shape the best literary work.

Released: 17-Jun-2004 12:00 PM EDT
Jazz Fantasy Camp at Moravian College a Big Hit with Area Musicians
Moravian College

July Jazz Getaway (JJG) was conceived in 1993 as a simple idea: a place where adult amateur jazz musicians could get away from their usual daily lives and get together to play lots of jazz in a fantasy camp, vacation atmosphere.

Released: 16-Jun-2004 8:30 AM EDT
Unique Raffle Supports Education, Economic Development
Northern Michigan University

A non-profit organization is raffling off "A Slice of Heaven," a secluded cabin in the Upper Peninsula wilderness, to raise funds for education and workforce development programs.

Released: 15-Jun-2004 6:40 AM EDT
Tony Bennett Opens Ferguson Center for the Arts
Christopher Newport University

The dream becomes reality with the grand opening performance in the Ferguson Center for the Arts at Christopher Newport University. American entertainment icon Tony Bennett will open the 440-seat Music and Theatre Hall, captivating the audience with his commanding performance.

Released: 15-Jun-2004 6:30 AM EDT
Maryland Jazz Expert Remembers Ray Charles
University of Maryland, College Park

Maryland's Director of Jazz Studies, Chris Vadala, performed a number of times with Ray Charles, who passed away last Thursday.

Released: 11-Jun-2004 4:40 PM EDT
James Joyce's Vision of a Dublin Day at 100
Williams College

In "Ulysses," James Joyce captured the progress of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and other residents of Dublin on June 16, 1904. Quite an appreciation for a man who wrote in his notebooks: "Today 16 June 1924 twenty years after. Will anyone remember?"

Released: 9-Jun-2004 6:20 AM EDT
Dedication of WWII Memorial Carries Meaning for Many Generations
University of Mississippi

English professor and author Ben W. McClelland, who recently published a memoir of his emotional quest to "know" his father who was killed shortly after being captured during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, reflects on the dedication of the WWII memorial and current conflicts abroad.

Released: 4-Jun-2004 8:00 AM EDT
Historic Bentley Snow Crystal Collection Available Again
University at Buffalo

Historic snow-crystal collection from photographer who proved no two snowflakes are alike is available again via digital library.

Released: 3-Jun-2004 2:30 PM EDT
Professor Transforms Garden into Celtic Myth at England's Westonbirt Festival
Iowa State University

A magical landscape inspired by Celtic culture is one of 13 gardens selected for the Westonbirt Festival of The Garden this summer in England. The "Otherworld Garden" is the creation of an associate professor of landscape architecture.

Released: 1-Jun-2004 1:30 PM EDT
American Experience at Normandy Featured in New Book
Missouri University of Science and Technology

To coincide with the 60th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy invasion during World War II, UMR military historian Dr. John C. McManus has published a unique new book that examines the battle from the American perspective.

Released: 1-Jun-2004 8:00 AM EDT
Notoriously Difficult "Ulysses" Actually Quite Simple
University at Buffalo

The world's most notoriously difficult-to-read novel, "Ulysses" by James Joyce, is really an easy read at its heart, according to the Joyce Scholar-In-Residence at the University at Buffalo.

Released: 25-May-2004 7:50 AM EDT
Special Epoch Issue on Poet A.R. Ammons
Cornell University

A.R. Ammons is celebrated in an unprecedented 480-page issue of Epoch magazine. It includes 30 unpublished poems, prose pieces from all phases of the poet's career, entries from Ammons' Navy diary; 21 remarkable watercolors by the poet, letters, conversations and other ephemera.

Released: 18-May-2004 1:30 PM EDT
Early Medicine, Literature Influenced Each Other
University of Toronto

Relationship between medicine and literature in 16th and 17th-century Renaissance England says professor.

Released: 14-May-2004 7:40 AM EDT
Kate McDonnell: Rising Musical Talent, Soon-to-Be Tufts University Graduate
Academy Communications

Kate McDonnell is an up-and-coming musician--and soon-to-be Tufts University grad. McDonnell, 37, will receive her bachelor's degree on Sunday, May 23, and will release her debut CD a few days later. Fellow songwriter/Tufts alumna Tracy Chapman will be at the podium.

Released: 12-May-2004 6:40 AM EDT
Grateful Dead Foundations Support Lou Harrison Archive
University of California, Santa Cruz

Two foundations established by members of the Grateful Dead have contributed funds to help preserve the archive of the late composer Lou Harrison at UC Santa Cruz.

Released: 5-May-2004 3:10 PM EDT
Experts are Sirius about Harry Potter
University of Maryland, College Park

Excitement is building for Warner Brother's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, opening in theaters June 4. One of UM's own Harry Potter experts - Jennie Levine - says that "Prisoner of Azkaban" is her favorite book of the series. She thinks this film will be the best to date.

Released: 4-May-2004 4:10 PM EDT
Professor Lends Expertise to Developing Heritage Center
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Nationally recognized historian and professor Elliott West will help bring the experiences of settlers in the late 1800s to life. He has joined the Homestead Heritage Center project team of the Homestead National Monument of America.

Released: 30-Apr-2004 4:40 PM EDT
Another “Stay More” Book from UA Novelist
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

In his most recent novel, "With," art professor Donald Harington creates a world from the perspective of a missing child, telling the sometimes harrowing, sometimes inspiring tale of the decade she spent growing up on a mountain with only animals and a spirit to keep her company.

Released: 29-Apr-2004 9:10 PM EDT
Up-and-Coming Composer Steven M. Burke wins The Rome Prize
Sarah Lawrence College

Next month, Steven M. Burke, winner of The 2004 Rome Prize for Musical Composition, will take leave from his post as music faculty member in composition to accept a one-year residency at the American Academy in Rome.

Released: 29-Apr-2004 1:20 PM EDT
Professor & Wife Turn Caddisfly Cases into One-of-a-Kind Jewelry
Wheeling Jesuit University

Many of us who look at Caddisflies think yuck, insects (unless you're a trout, and think yum, dinner). But Kathy and Ben Stout see something entirely different: thousands of tiny workers, meticulously building jewelry pieces out of semiprecious stones.

Released: 21-Apr-2004 3:10 PM EDT
Gilchrist Honored Twice for Writing
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Renowned writer and associate professor of creative writing Ellen Gilchrist was recently awarded the Thomas Wolfe Award on behalf of the English department at UNC Chapel Hill and the Thomas Wolfe Society. Gilchrist has also been chosen as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Tulane University.

Released: 15-Apr-2004 6:10 AM EDT
Police and Rescue Workers Share Syndromes of Holocaust Survivors
Pace University

Police and other workers exposed to the shadow of death share little-recognized psychological symptoms with survivors of the Holocaust,according to a study of 50 cops by a former NYPD sergeant. He now works for more humane policies.

Released: 14-Apr-2004 4:20 PM EDT
18th Century Literary Greats Come Back to Life in Digital Book
Purdue University

Thanks to Purdue University Press' first digital book, readers can learn what some of the greatest minds in 18th century literature might say today if they traded their quill pens for keyboards.

Released: 9-Apr-2004 6:00 AM EDT
Lori Belilove and Company Major Dance Performance at Mills College
Mills College

Lori Belilove & Company, resident performing company of the Isadora Duncan Foundation, will perform the West Coast premiere of "Isadora...no apologies" on Friday, April 16, 2004 at Mills College.

Released: 7-Apr-2004 5:20 PM EDT
Scripps Nierenberg Prize Awarded to Primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall
University of California San Diego

The fourth annual award honoring the memory of William A. Nierenberg, who led Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, as director for more than two decades, will be awarded to celebrated primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall.

Released: 1-Apr-2004 5:30 PM EST
Doctor, Are You Listening?
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Studies have shown that when patients begin speaking, doctors tend to interrupt within a matter of seconds, says communication studies expert Jonathan Amsbary, Ph.D., who recently conducted a survey in Birmingham on doctor-patient communications.

Released: 1-Apr-2004 4:30 PM EST
Globalization, Cultural Capital to Be Examined at Humanities Symposium
Grinnell College

The symposium brings scholars who will address globalization and cultural capital. What can the "˜cultural' work in the humanities and social sciences offer to analyzing the globalized flows of money, media, people, goods, and services?

Released: 31-Mar-2004 4:00 PM EST
Program Assesses the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
University of Maryland, College Park

"With All Deliberate Speed - Considering Brown v. the Board of Education Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" is a daylong program designed to look at the Brown decision from both a historical, as well as a personal, perspective.

Released: 23-Mar-2004 3:50 PM EST
Watchdog Role Still Embraced in Newsrooms
Colorado State University

Journalists continue to identify with a traditional watchdog role, according to a study. To a much lesser extent, newspaper reporters and editors embrace the so-called interpretive role, which previous surveys of journalists found to be predominant.

Released: 19-Mar-2004 5:40 PM EST
‘Reality TV Bytes’ Will Spoof Reality Shows Like 'Trading Spaces'
Ball State University

Ready to make fun of television's overzealous offering of reality TV shows like "Survivor," "Trading Spaces," and "Blind Date"? "Reality TV Bytes" will do just that during its limited-access, live broadcast at 8 p.m. April 13, to air via campus cable television and 35 Internet slots.

Released: 17-Mar-2004 12:00 AM EST
Design for Library of Life Symbolizes Middle East Peace
Cornell University

What will Bridging the Rift, the new collaborative scientific research center in neutral territory between Israel and Jordan, look like, and how is it being built? Architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have created a design built around symbols of unity.

Released: 15-Mar-2004 4:50 PM EST
Scholar of Presidential Blunders Includes War in Iraq
Dick Jones Communications

As the one-year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq approaches Friday, a scholar of blunders by U.S. presidents says the failure of intelligence to know that Iraq had no WMDs was "real, but incidental to the strategic miscalculation" by the Bush administration.

Released: 8-Mar-2004 6:00 PM EST
White Slavery Was Much More Common Than Believed
Ohio State University

A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians (and some Americans) were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 "“ a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.

Released: 8-Mar-2004 6:10 AM EST
Nexus of Neuroscience, Art & Architecture to be Explored During Symposium
University of California San Diego

Brain perceptions, often non-linear, holistic images, subtly influence the way humans deal with space and design in art and architecture. A March 20 symposium will explore the role of conscious, and unconscious, brain-mind activity in the process of creating art and designing homes and buildings.

Released: 3-Mar-2004 5:30 PM EST
School of the Arts Gets Noticed at Academy Awards
University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Millions of viewers of Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony heard something different: One of the winners thanked the School of Filmmaking at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Released: 25-Feb-2004 5:00 PM EST
Theologian and Author Available to Discuss Controversial Mel Gibson Film
Saint Louis University Medical Center

Expert also can discuss how Jesus Christ has been portrayed and interpreted historically.

Released: 18-Feb-2004 4:10 PM EST
Delaware Symposium Explores Lives Of 'Michael Field'
University of Delaware

The University of Delaware will host the first scholarsly symposium devoted to the lives and work of late-Victorian poets, playwrights, and lovers Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote under the pen name Michael Field.

Released: 18-Feb-2004 12:00 AM EST
Festival Honors Legendary Playwright Horton Foote
Baylor University

The inaugural Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival, scheduled for March 3-6, includes a Q&A with Foote; appearances by Robert Duvall, Estelle Parsons, and Ellen Burstyn; and the 50th anniversary production of Foote's play "The Traveling Lady."



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